Reviews

DVAW14
Alhamduilllah another year and another Domestic Violence awareness week nipped in the bud. Each year we are progressing and spreading more awareness.
Monday
Voices for the Voiceless
We kick started the week of with a video uniting influential figures and organisations together to condemn domestic abuse and give their support to Nour. We would like to thank each and every participant.
Tuesday
Macho Man webinar
We discovered with Mufti Abu Layth what makes you a real man. How was our Prophet SalAllahu alayhi wa Sallam. How did he carry himself? What did he do in times of stress. How...

Afshan Khan has been serving the community for 27 years in Islamic counselling and Mediation service for Muslim women. It was an honour for Nour to get hold of her as she shared her expertise in this field. The workshop proved effective through its interactive nature. Many sisters were able to engage with sister Afshan and disclose their personal feelings hoping to take something positive back home.
So the question is who controls you?
The question was thrown at the sisters who responded with answers such as emotions, lack of confidence, other people, the negatives, and the positives. Not one...

This years Domestic Violence Awareness Week was our biggest awareness week yet. Find out how it went in our review of all the events below.
Monday – Advertising Campaign
Nour kickstarted Domestic Violence Awareness Week by launching adverts across bus headliners in London’s West Ham, to raise awareness for the clandestine social issue of household abuse. Running for four weeks, we aim to direct sufferers towards Nour in a bid to reduce silence surrounding this subject. Bus headliner advertising will expose the campaign across bus routes in the north and east of London, giving public...

London-based Islamic charity Nour have selected the services of Transport Media in order to publicise their UK support network for the muslim community.
Campaigning against domestic violence, Nour are launching adverts across bus headliners in London’s West Ham to raise awareness for the clandestine social issue of household abuse. Running for four weeks, the campaign will direct sufferers towards Nour in a bid to reduce silence surrounding the subject, commencing in synchronisation with the Nour Domestic Violence Awareness Week on the 18th March.
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The Battle At Home was the very first outreach event Nour – Domestic Violence had presented. Its aim was to create an engaging seminar with the public that would illustrate the severity of domestic violence, which we felt was something that needed addressing, to highlight the reality of things. We aimed to highlight the war zone that has left many victims hurt, bruised, and broken; to highlight the battle at home.
The event entailed many speakers from different fields, to give an insight of the reality of domestic violence from a number of angles. We initiated the event with a speech...

This documentary was one of those which you had to watch with a box of tissue beside you. The stories told by the brave victims of acid attacks were ones so difficult to listen to. The documentary focussed on two ladies, Zakia and Rukhsana. Their stories were two of hundreds of common cases that are silently endured by the people of Pakistan.
Acid attacks are often random attacks either led by the husbands of these women, their in-laws, or someone hired by the aforementioned parties. Refuges have been set up for these women, who are shunned by their families. These women are forced to...